Jennifer Mittelstadt

Jennifer Mittelstadt is Professor of History at Rutgers University. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in U.S. History. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Mittelstadt is professor of history at Rutgers College. In 2017–2018, she served as the Harold K. Johnson Chair in Military History at United States Army War College.

• The Military and the Market: New Histories of War, Capitalism, and Empire, edited with Mark R. Wilson (Philadelphia: Penn Press, 2022)
• The Rise of the Military Welfare State (Harvard University Press, 2015)
• Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, co-authored and edited with Premilla Nadasen and Marisa Chappell (New York: Routledge, 2009)
• From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1964 (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

• Guggenheim Fellowship Award (2022–23)
• Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2020-2021
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2008-2009